Holly Black Quotes - Page 6

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• I know how to be the witness to her grief. I don't know how to be this kind of villain.

  Holly Black

  Grief, Kind, Villain

  Holly Black (2012). “Red Glove”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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• You are the best kind of killer, Cassel Sharpe, the kind that never has blood on his hands. The kind that never has to sicken at the sight of what he's done, or come to like it too much.

  Holly Black

  Sight, Blood, Hands

  Holly Black (2011). “Red Glove”, p.74, Simon and Schuster

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• Let me look out for you. Let your enemies become mine.

  Holly Black

  Enemy, Looks, Let Me

  Holly Black (2012). “Red Glove”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

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• You sure you want to cross me?" In that moment she's her father's daughter.

  Holly Black

  Daughter, Father, Want

  Holly Black (2012). “Red Glove”, p.107, Simon and Schuster

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• I thought of how proud he was when he took the marks- cutting the skin of his throat in a long slash and then packing it with ashes until keloid scars rose up. He called it his second smile.

  Holly Black

  Cutting, Long, Rose

  Holly Black (2011). “Red Glove”, p.187, Simon and Schuster

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• I got bored," he says. "Besides, you know what's creepier than walking around your dead brothers' apartment? Sitting alone in a hearse in front of his apartment.

  Holly Black

  Brother, Bored, Sitting

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• If you keep it," Daneca says, "he'll have his claws in you." Everyone has their claws in me. Everyone.

  Holly Black

  Claws, Ifs

  Holly Black (2012). “Red Glove”, p.221, Simon and Schuster

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• The moment she was cursed, I lost her. Once it wears off- soon- she will be embarrassed to remember things that she said, things she did, things like this. No matter how solid she feels in my arms, she is made of smoke.

  Holly Black

  Arms, Matter, Remember

  Holly Black (2012). “Red Glove”, p.246, Simon and Schuster

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• No trouble ever got fixed late at night," he said. "Midnight is for regrets.

  Holly Black

  Regret, Night, Trouble

  Holly Black (2012). “Red Glove”, p.303, Simon and Schuster

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• One fine day, in the middle of the night, two dead boys got up to fight. Back to back they faced each other. They pulled out their swords and shot one another. One deaf cop, on the beat heard the noise, and came and shot the two dead boys.

  Holly Black

  Fighting, Boys, Night

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• I wonder about death, I who may never know it. It looks much like ecstacy, the way they open their mouths as they drown, the way their fingers dig into your skin. Their eyes are wide and startled and they trash in your hands as though with an excess of passion.

  Holly Black

  Passion, Eye, Hands

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• I can walk into someone's house, kiss their wife, sit down at their table, and eat their dinner. I can lift a passport at an airport, and in twenty minutes it will seem like it's mine. I can be a blackbird staring in the window. I can be a cat creeping along a ledge. I can go anywhere I want and do the worst things I can imagine, with nothing to ever connect me to those crimes. Today I look like me, but tomorrow I could look like you. I could be you.

  Holly Black

  Cat, Kissing, Airports

  Holly Black (2012). “Black Heart”, p.197, Simon and Schuster

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• It's too early for there to be any coffee. I stare dully at the empty pot in the common room, while Sam picks up a jar of instant grounds. "Don't," I warn him. He scoops up a heaping spoonful and, heedlessly, shovels it into his mouth. It crunches horribly. Then his eyes go wide. "Dry," he croaks. "Tongue...shriveling." I shake my head, picking up the jar. "It's dehydrated. You're supposed to add water. Good thing you're mostly made of water." He tries to say something. Brown powder dusts his shirt. "Also," I tell him, "that's decaf.

  Holly Black

  Coffee, Eye, Dust

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• What is it? For what do you scheme? Ethine's death would weigh on you and the stain of her blood would seep into your skin" "Do you know what they wish for when they give you the Unseelie crown?" Roiben's tone was soft, like he was telling a secret. Kaye could barely catch his words. "That you be made of ice. What makes you think it matters what I feel? What makes you think I feel anything at all?

  Holly Black

  Thinking, Blood, Ice

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• The most important thing for any con artist is never to think like a mark. Marks think they can get something for nothing. Marks think they can get what they don’t deserve and could never deserve. Marks are stupid and pathetic and sad. Marks think they’re going to go home one night and have the girl they’ve loved since they were a kid suddenly love them back. Marks forget that whenever something’s too good to be true, that’s because it’s a con.

  Holly Black

  Girl, Stupid, Home

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• If they were real, then maybe the world was big enough to have magic in it. And if there was magic — even bad magic, and Zach knew it was more likely that there was bad magic than any good kind — then maybe not everyone had to have a story like his father's, a story like the kind all the adults he knew told, one about giving up and growing bitter.

  Holly Black

  Giving Up, Real, Father

  Holly Black (2013). “Doll Bones”, p.117, Simon and Schuster

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• He was as honest as any criminal can hope to be.

  Holly Black

  Criminals, Honest

  Holly Black (2012). “Black Heart”, p.211, Simon and Schuster

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• You are more dangerous than daybreak.

  Holly Black

  Dangerous, Daybreak

  "The Coldest Girl in Coldtown". Book by Holly Black, 2013.

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• Death’s favorites don’t die.

  Holly Black

  Dies

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• Being infected, being a vampire, it’ s always you. Maybe it’ s more you than ever before. It’ s you as you always were, deep down inside.

  Holly Black

  Vampire, Deep Down

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• I haven't had a very good day. I think I might still be hung over and everyone's dead and my root beer's gone.

  Holly Black

  Good Day, Beer, Thinking

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• Allow me to explain how my whole life has prepared me for this moment. I am used to girls screaming, and your screams – will be sweeter than another’s cries of love.

  Holly Black

  Girl, Cry, Scream

  Holly Black (2013). “The Coldest Girl in Coldtown”, p.217, Hachette UK

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• There is nothing for her beyond those gates," Gavriel said. "Do you think to bring her along like a talisman to remind you of your humanity? Or do you think sharing your damnation will lighten the burden of it?

  Holly Black

  Thinking, Humanity, Damnation

  Holly Black (2013). “The Coldest Girl in Coldtown”, p.50, Hachette UK

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• Tana. In all my long life, though there were many times I prayed for it, no one has ever saved me. No one but you.

  Holly Black

  Long, Long Life, Saved

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• You're yourself," Tana said, grinning. "More purely yourself than anyone I know. And if you can't see who that is anymore, then see yourself the way I see you.

  Holly Black

  Way, Said, Grinning

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